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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/07> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] EventStreams
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventStreams> is a new way to show
activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed.
It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream>. Tools that use RCStream
should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2017-February/005711.html>
*Problems*
- The Firefox add-on <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Add-on_(Mozilla)>
Firefogg <https://firefogg.org/> can cause problems with the Upload
Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg
in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157201>
- Tool Labs <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tool_Labs>
and Wikimedia
Labs <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Wikimedia_Labs> databases
will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=00&sec=0&day=15&month=02&year=2017>
and
last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after
this. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157358>
*Changes this week*
- The TwoColConflict
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TwoColConflict>
extension
is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste
the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German
Wikipedia this week. It is already available on
MediaWiki.org. It will come
to more wikis later. [4]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all
wikis from 16 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=02&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Page Previews
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards> will
be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and
Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a
short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the
link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the
article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It
will come to more wikis later this spring. [5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards#Rollout_Plan>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Developer Wishlist
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist> is a list where
developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February
23:59 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=59&sec=0&day=14&month=02&year=2017>.
This process is only for developers.
*Review*
- You can read the 2016 product summary
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/2016_Product_Summary> from
the Wikimedia Foundation Product group
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product> to see what they did
with things they said they would work on in the annual plan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/Final>
.
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